Nandor Horvath <horvath@sztaki.hu> writes: * * Hi, * * We have got an offer for 3Com NETBuilder II routers. They seem to be quite * cheap, but I do not have any experience with them. * * If you have such a router, could you please write me your experience * with them, especially compared to CISCO router? Can it really support * BGP 4 routing protocol and RFC877 encapsulation? * Although I haven't used one myself I know there are 3coms in use doing RFC877 (now revised as RFC1356) and they also have participated in the BGP4 trials and have a version of BGP4 that will talk to the cisco implementation (and others I guess, although not so far tested I beleive) *but* their implementation cannot generate aggregates as yet or least this is what I remember from the last BGPD meeting in Houston. I have no idea of performance issues, although there are I believe 3coms (not usre if are NETbuilder IIs though) within the SuperJANET network so perhaps they can help or comparability with a cisco sorry. * Many thanks for your reply, * Nandor Horvath Tony.